Meghan Markle dreamed of launching a cookbook before becoming a royal

The announcement that Meghan Markle’s first solo royal project would be the launch of a charity cookbook came as a pleasant surprise for fans.
However, it seems the idea wasn’t completely out of left field for our newly-minted Duchess of Sussex.
Once upon a time, before a friend set her up on a date with a certain ginger-haired British prince, Meghan, 37, had plans to launch a cookbook through her now-defunct lifestyle blog.

Meghan has launched a cookbook in conjunction with a women's community kitchen. (Getty)
In a 2015 interview, the actress touched on her plans for evolving The Tig, the "travel, food, fashion and beauty" site she launched in 2014.
“I see it evolving into an international brand with many different iterations,” she told the website Bay Street Bull.
“Who knows, I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw a Tig cookbook or travel collaboration down the road. The opportunities are endless.”

Meghan pictured at the launch of 'Together'. (AAP)
Though this particular Tig vision didn’t come to fruition - Meghan closed the blog when she began dating Prince Harry - her cookbook dream certainly did.
Last week, Meghan launched Together: Our Community Cookbook, which she created with the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen in London.

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The Duchess wrote the foreword for the recipe collection - which will raise money for the community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - and touched on her love of food.
“I have a lifelong interest in the story of food—where it comes from, why we embrace it, and how it brings us together: the universal connection to community through the breaking of bread,” she explained.

This isn’t the first time Meghan has kind-of predicted aspects of her new royal life.
In a 2014 post on The Tig, the then-Suits star admitted she, like many women, daydreamed of becoming a princess as a little girl.
"Little girls dream of being princesses … I, for one, was all about She-Ra, Princess of Power,” she wrote.

Dreams really do come true. (Getty)
Incredibly, Meghan went on to reference the spectacle of royal weddings - including that of her now-sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge.
"Just look at the pomp and circumstance surrounding the royal wedding and endless conversations about Princess Kate," she wrote.
Meghan couldn’t have possibly known that just four years later, she’d find herself at the centre of that very same “pomp and circumstance”.